10. A Tough Performance One of the worst Cirque du Soleil
performances in history had to be cut short when an acrobat made a terrible mistake.
They were performing “The Beatles LOVE” in Las Vegas when one of the aerial artists
fell and hit the floor. Luckily, the show was stopped right away and the unidentified performer
was taken immediately to the medical team, where they were reported in stable condition.
But this was nothing compared to a previous Cirque du Soleil performance that actually did end up
with someone dying. Back in 2013, a performer named Sarah Guillot-Guyard was in the Cirque du
Soleil show “KA,” being performed in Las Vegas. She fell 50 feet(15m) while being hoisted up the
side of the stage and fell down to the floor. At first, people in the audience thought it was part
of the show. They thought she had fallen down on purpose until screaming and groaning filled the
auditorium. Everyone could hear Sarah crying from the stage that she was in terrible pain.
Tragically, Sarah didn't make it out of that one alive. The performer died from her injuries,
proving once and for all just how deadly being an acrobat in a traveling show can be. Despite
thousands of hours of training and rehearsal, the slightest misstep can still send a professional
acrobat home in a body bag. 9. A Bad Mix
The driver of a cement mixer was discovered clinging to the back of his truck hours after
he died in a freak accident. He may have been on the back of his truck, but he was
missing one very important feature: his head! The people who found the victim of this freak
accident were ordinary residents who happened to be driving by the cement truck and realized
something didn't quite look right. The man was hanging on to the side of the ladder with the
upper part of his body jammed into the top of the cement drum. But he wasn't moving.
Upon closer inspection, the residents realized the guy was dead. He had died in such a strange
position that it looked like he was still at work. The residents quickly backed off and called the
police. When the police showed up, they learned that the man had been decapitated, probably
while sticking his head into the cement drum to inspect it. He likely lost his footing, his neck
was caught in the rotating drum, and it ripped his head clean off his body. Suffice to say, working a
cement truck can be a pretty hazardous job. To make things worse for the driver,
who was identified as 41-year-old Juan, living and working in western Taiwan – the authorities never
managed to find his head. They believe it was crushed inside the spinning mechanism.
8. A Fierce Catch Being a fisherman is one of the most
dangerous things in the world. Fisherman Jackson Howson knows this from first-hand experience.
He was fishing near Coral Bay in Western Australia when he had a rather unfortunate
run-in with an angry shark. He had just finished spearing a fish when a lurking shark decided to
take a bite out of him! The shark had been trying to eat the same fish, but Jackson beat him to it.
So, the shark took out its frustration on the fisherman, sinking its teeth right into his ankle.
Jackson was in his 20s when this happened, and luckily, he was in pretty good physical condition.
He was able to punch the shark in the face to disorient it. Then he hurried away for dear life.
He swam over 300 feet(91m) back to his boat with the shark trailing after him!
Jackson made it onto the boat without getting attacked again. He never even got a good look at
the predator that tried to kill him. He believes it was probably a bull shark, one of the most
dangerous on the planet. He managed to make it to Perth Royal Hospital, where doctors fixed him
up without any problems. He had some serious gashes on his leg, but walked away from the
hospital without suffering any long-term damage. And the last we heard, he’s still a fisherman.
Would you go back to fishing if you were attacked by a shark? Let us know in the comments below
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you haven’t already! :) 7. A Dangerous Fare
Being a taxi driver has never been a glamorous job, but now more than ever,
it's one of the most dangerous in the world. Humberto Sierra Camacho was 46 years old and a
taxi driver in Maryland. He knew the dangers of the job – but hey, it paid the bills.
And up until recently, nothing had ever happened to him that a good night of sleep couldn't fix.
But then, 14-year-old Romeo Nolasco Cuellar flagged down his taxi and got in. He was posing
as a passenger. But the drive would only last for about 10 minutes. The kid almost
immediately pulled out a knife to rob Humberto of the measly $40 that he had on him. As measly
as that $40 may have been, the grown adult was not about to hand it over to some punk with a knife.
There was a struggle and Humberto lost. He ended up being stabbed several times by the 14-year-old.
His stab wounds were so serious that he bled out and died right there in his taxi.
And to make matters even more tragic, he had only been a taxi driver for Taxi Latino in Maryland for
three months. All the money that he made was sent back to his wife and kids still living in Mexico.
Now Humberto is dead, his wife and kids are in a horrible position, and the 14-year-old
is looking at a life in jail. 6. A Missed Package
Working in an Amazon warehouse is one of the most dangerous things that you can do. At least,
it was for Billy Foister. When the 48-year-old man signed up to work in the Amazon warehouse,
little did he know he was signing his own death warrant. He dropped onto the
floor from a heart attack and was left there struggling to breathe for over 20 minutes.
And to make things even more horrendous, the boss on site ordered everyone to go back to work
immediately after Billy’s body was dragged off the warehouse floor.
This wasn't a spontaneous heart attack either. According to Billy’s brother, he had gone to
the clinic at the warehouse complaining about headaches and chest pains. But all the care
worker said was that he was dehydrated and should drink more water and get back to work.
After the incident, Amazon denied through their teeth that Billy died at the warehouse.
They instead said that their trained team members responded quickly, that emergency
responders arrived within minutes, and that he died at the local hospital. But of course,
Amazon never did respond to any additional comments on the situation.
5. A Bad Day at the Office In Tennessee, being a postal
worker is not only hazardous, it can prove deadly. Three people were killed after a postal worker
sorting mail in Memphis, went absolutely crazy at a facility and shot two of their
coworkers. Family members who arrived on scene identified one of the victims as James Wilson,
the manager of the facility. However, the Postal Service and the FBI are keeping pretty quiet
about the rest of the details. What we've been able to piece together so far is that
the postal worker snapped, went after his boss, and then took down whoever else was in his way.
We all know postal workers have a history of going crazy and murdering their coworkers.
This in itself makes it a difficult job to apply for. But in October of 2010, Tennessee was rocked
by yet another attack on postal office workers, this time from a robbery! Two workers were shot
by a guy who walked in looking for cash! I mean, who in the world decides to rob a post office?
It really makes you want to be a little nicer to your mailman.
4. A Bit of a Shock Harvey Tyrell was just seven years old
when he went with his family to the King Harold Pub in East London. They were hanging out in the
beer gardens when the young kid put his hand on a poorly installed outdoor light. This was September
11, 2018. When the kid touched the lights, he received a massive electric shock that went
through his body and stopped his heart. The little boy was killed by an overload of electricity.
Now, obviously this was not the little boy's fault. Instead, the blame fell on the electrician
who rigged up the wiring, as well as the owner of the pub. The owner is David Bearman, 73 years old.
In court proceedings following the death of the boy, he was given nine years in jail
for gross negligence manslaughter. The judge actually told him that his pub was a disgrace.
Then there's the electrician, David’s brother-in-law, Colin Naylor. Colin is
a year older than David, but he was only handed down a sentence of a single year in
jail for his crummy electric job. Both men had known that the electrical wiring was dangerous,
and both had done nothing about it. Colin had tried to fix the lights a little bit, but he
clearly wasn't a very good electrician. And that brings us to the whole point. Being an electrician
is not only a dangerous job because you might find yourself electrocuted, but because you could cause
someone else’s death by electric volts! 3. A Sheepish Killer
Being a farmer is tough, especially if you are a 94-year-old man who can't take proper care of his
sheep. An elderly man in France, near the small town of Cestas, recently met his maker all thanks
to a rampaging ram. The old guy had been wandering across a field full of sheep when one particularly
angry ram saw it had an opportunity. The male sheep knocked the old man off his balance,
then when he was on the ground, he trampled him! The guy was later found lying in the dirt with
his face swollen and bruised, with no pulse and no life. The ram had made easy work of him, trampling
and beating him until he stopped moving – forever! What police found out afterward was that the ram
was not normally aggressive. Instead, it had turned aggressive because there were a lot
of female sheep around and he was showing off as the dominant male. The 94-year-old man had
decided to take a shortcut through the field where the sheep lived. This probably caused
the ram to become protective of his flock, at which point it charged the man and killed him.
2. A Predator in the Woods Speaking of wild animal attacks,
a logger in a remote Russian forest was recently mauled to death after going to the toilet in the
middle of the night. Logging is an extremely hazardous profession, but normally because of
the heavy-duty equipment and the fact that trees are falling every which way. People get crushed
by trees, they die in equipment accidents – they don't normally get mauled to death by wild beasts.
According to the local authorities, the Russian logger was named Mikhail Shabaldin, 41 years old.
He left the camp in the middle of the night to use the toilet and ran into a massive Siberian tiger.
Imagine his surprise when the tiger pounced from the shadows and slashed him in the face
with its huge paw. The wild beast ambushed the logger before he ever even got to the toilet,
then dragged him away into the forest. His coworkers discovered scattered pieces
of clothing, bits of what appeared to be human flesh, blood stains in the dirt,
and tiger footprints everywhere, but the body was never found. The prevailing theory at this point
is that the tiger dragged Mikhail back to its lair and then ate him. There's little chance of
his remains ever being found. And because this happened so far away in the forest, there isn’t
much anyone can do about it. It's just one of the dangers of logging in the Russian wilderness.
1. A Rookie Cop Cops have a tough job, there's no doubt about it.
If you think being a police officer is easy, let's take a look at the case of Ashley Guindon. She was
responding to a domestic shooting on a Saturday evening when she herself became a victim of gun
violence. Amazingly, Ashley had been sworn in as a police officer the day before her death. She
was a rookie cop and it was her first day on the job. She went to investigate the shooting with two
other officers, and all three of them got blasted. According to the Prince William County Police,
Ashley graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona
with a bachelor’s degree in aeronautics. But because she had a lot of family law enforcement,
she decided to do some patrol work. Had she picked any other day to start,
she may still be alive right on. But on this Saturday evening, Ronald Hamilton of Virginia
got into an argument with his wife. The argument turned violent and Ronald started shooting. During
the fight, he shot his wife to death. And then when the cops showed up, he tried to shoot them
too. Ashley lost her life, the other two officers were wounded, and Hamilton was swiftly apprehended
by other cops who arrived on the scene. He has since been charged with first-degree
murder and will never see the light of day again. Do you know anyone who met their fate at work? Let
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